Objective
Full time employment in engineering
Education
Iowa State University, Ames, IA Graduated Spring 2017 B.S. Industrial Engineering, Technical Sales minor Technical Skills
• Kaizen
• Value stream mapping
• Design-for-manufacturing
Experience
LEAN Continuous Improvement Engineer, PJ Trailers
August 2018 – Present, Paris, TX
• Applied design-for-manufacturing to various models, saving $540,000 in material and labor costs per year.
• Converted weld bay building of trailers to assembly line, compressing manufacturing space by 20,000 sqft and resulting in $500,000 in annual savings, and $900,000 in productivity gains
• Led three kaizen events that increased paint quality from 40% first pass yield to 75% in two months
• Developed standard work and line balanced finishing line, saving $280,000
• Aided in the training of 60 people in company's lean manufacturing transformation across three factories
• Managed steel yard organization project, reducing space by acre
• Designed reusable pallets that eliminated waste and allowed for better ergonomic material retrieval
• Led the development of multiple new model manufacturing lines in Mexico facility Industrial Engineer/Supervisor in Training, Blueprint Robotics August 2017-June 2018, Baltimore, MD
• Managed completion and packaging of prefab residential wall units o Factory installation of doors and windows
o Packaging (400 feet of produced walls per day)
• Conducted time studies and used design for manufacturing to implement process changes, which increased production line output by 40%
• Developed a flexible packaging method:
o Saved an estimated $4,000 in annual shipping costs o Increased operator uptime from 50% to 87%, saving an estimated $30,000 in annual labor costs
• Used monthly 5S and safety audits to identify and implement factory area improvements Production Engineering Intern, Blueprint Robotics
Summer 2016, Baltimore, MD
• Prototyped and developed packaging system that saved an estimated $400,000 in material and labor costs during first three years of production
• Analyzed factory floor flow and designed material handling carts
• Researched and initiated consultant relationships, which became long-term ETHAN OSBORN 614-***-****, *****.*.******@*****.*** 201 McKinney Village Pkwy Apt 2287, McKinney, TX, 75069
• Poke yoke
• Time studies
• 5S
• Standard work
• Kanban systems
• Takt time
Industrial Engineering Student Consultant, TugKay Consulting Spring 2017, Ames, IA
• Saved $900,000 in operating costs for the first year of production
• Applied value analysis to improve ergonomic design and reduce cost of the company’s new virtual reality cave
• Reduced manufacturing space by 57%
• Won the Industrial Engineering Capstone Design Project top prize Computer Skills
AutoCad, Oracle OTM, Python Programming, RSLogix, SketchUp, SolidWorks, VBA